You know what I just figured out this morning? James Avery, better known as Uncle Phil on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, did the voice for Shredder on the Ninja Turtles.

Behold, the effects of education.

Happy Iron Maiden Day, dudes. The Flight 666 movie isn't playing in WPG, but you can see it tonight if you're in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver.

Musical happenings today ( Read more... )

Term's done. Don't quite know what's what yet.

Been writing a bunch, but it's been a while since I've put anything in here. Much of said writing has been for school, but you can check some of the other, music-based, stuff out here. I've managed to get some kind of plague, just as the weather is getting nice, of course. Yearg, sometimes I think ( Read more... )

You know what the theatre is? What going to the movies is? Pacification of human beings. Ever pay attention to the theatre before the lights go down? People munching on cruddy snack food, reading those empty little theatre magazines, and watching things on the screen intended to fill the silence of the room before the movie. Everyone is so helpless ( Read more... )

I read this and as a result am now contractually obligated to do it myself. It's good though, because it'll enable me to write about some groups/records that I'd wanted to write about recently ( Read more... )

Hey, Gentleman Reg is back. His new record comes out soon and it sounds pretty good. It's got guests, such as Bry Webb from the Constantines. Here he is doing a tune you might know that isn't on the new album. And it seems the alternate universe me that moved to Toronto in 1998 plays guitar in his band (0:34 in).

And hey, Bell Orchestre is ( Read more... )

...Your ridiculous pal eats pizza, watches and critiques super hero movies, wishing downstairs guy would stop snoring. Of note: the recent Hulk, and the Fantastic Four movie with the Silver Surfer. I'd heard bad things about both before watching them, and I cannot dispute any of these things, but it was good to see these. In the case of the Hulk, ( Read more... )

Here are two (among many) reasons why this town is happening:

The hip cinema place showed this Sonic Youth documentary tonight, as part of the fundrive for the U Winnipeg campus station. 'Twas dope ( Read more... )

Projections of an LP collection, for a Saturday afternoon in February ( Read more... )